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Danielle Taschereau Mamers

Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing

Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art

Danielle Taschereau Mamers

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Fordham University Press
05 December 2023
Art of indigenous peoples; Library & information services; Indigenous peoples
An innovative analysis of Indigenous strategies for overcoming the settler state

How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state's capacity to see? What kinds of worlds do documents help create? Further, how might such documentary practices and settler colonial ways of seeing be refused?

Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing investigates how the Canadian state has used documents, lists, and databases to generate, make visible - and invisible - Indigenous identity. With an archive of legislative documents, registration forms, identity cards, and reports, Danielle Taschereau Mamers traces the political and media history of Indian status in Canada, demonstrating how paperwork has been used by the state to materialize identity categories in the service of colonial governance. Her analysis of bureaucratic artifacts is led by the interventions of Indigenous artists, including Robert Houle, Nadia Myre, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, and Rebecca Belmore. Bringing together media theories of documentation and the strategies of these artists, Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing develops a method for identifying how bureaucratic documents mediate power relations as well as how those relations may be disobeyed and reimagined.

By integrating art-led inquiry with media theory and settler colonial studies approaches, Taschereau Mamers offers a political and media history of the documents that have reproduced Indian status. More importantly, she provides us with an innovative guide for using art as a method of theorizing decolonial political relations. This is a crucial book for any reader interested in the intersection of state archives, settler colonial studies, and visual culture in the context of Canada's complex and violent relationship with Indigenous peoples.
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Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   349g
ISBN:   9781531505202
ISBN 10:   1531505201
Pages:   208
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction | 1 1 The Acts | 25 2 The Register | 52 3 The Cards | 76 4 Seeing the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Crisis | 103 Conclusion: Displacing Settler Vision | 135 Acknowledgments | 145 Notes | 149 Index | 177

Danielle Taschereau Mamers writes about art, documents, and visual politics. Her research has been published in CR: New Centennial Review, Settler Colonial Studies, Photography & Culture, and other academic and popular journals. She holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Western Ontario.

Reviews for Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art

In Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing, Danielle Taschereau Mamers offers an insightful and compelling account of the ideological dynamics enacted by various modes of colonial record-keeping and documentation. Further, she provides incredibly evocative analyses of how Indigenous artists have taken up these administrative modes in order to register and contest the ways they translate Native bodies and territories as the stuff of everyday settler management. This excellent, provocative study brings together visual, legal, and Indigenous studies in new ways that illustrate the import of artwork for understanding and engaging state processes.---Mark Rifkin, author of Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination


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